Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt

Artist photo of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt - Conductor

“Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt is one of the leading cellists of his generation and our time,” judged none other than Mstislav Rostropovich. During his studies with David Geringas and Aldo Parisot, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt made a name for himself in numerous competitions. He was a laureate of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the International Rostropovich Competition, as well as the winner of the German Music Competition.

Since then, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt has conquered the world’s concert stages as a soloist, performing with conductors such as Marek Janowski, Charles Dutoit, Sir Donald Runnicles, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jirí Belohlávek, Gabriel Feltz, Michael Sanderling, and many others.

In addition to his solo career, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt enthusiastically devotes himself to chamber music. He is a member of the Gropius Quartet and has been performing for over thirty years with Jens Peter Maintz as Cello Duello. His chamber music partners have included Lang Lang, Christoph Eschenbach, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Gil Shaham, Julia Fischer, Gidon Kremer, and Mischa Maisky.

In recent years, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt has increasingly focused on his work as a conductor. He has been invited to conduct orchestras such as the Dortmund Philharmonic, the State Orchestra Rheinische Philharmonie, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, and the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella, to name just a few.

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt is a professor at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and the Kronberg Academy.

Picture (c) Simon Pauly


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